HW Virtual Serial Port

HW Virtual Serial Port: Software for Emulating Physical Serial Ports

HW Virtual Serial Port creates virtual COM ports to connect two applications, like a physical serial port cable, allowing older software to connect to newer systems.

What is HW Virtual Serial Port?

HW Virtual Serial Port is a utility that creates virtual COM ports on Windows systems to allow applications to communicate like they are connected via a physical serial port cable. It installs virtual serial port drivers to emulate serial ports using standard Windows API calls.

This virtual serial port software can be helpful in cases where you need to connect older software that only supports legacy serial connections to newer systems that may lack physical serial ports. For example, you can use HW Virtual Serial Port to connect an older industrial program to a new PC to send and receive data.

Some key features of HW Virtual Serial Port include:

• Creates up to 20 virtual serial port pairs
• Supports up to 230 Kbps baud rate for communications
• Configuration for port settings like baud rate, parity, etc.
• Monitoring to see data being sent and received on ports

The virtual serial ports appear in Windows Device Manager and applications access them using standard Windows API calls for serial communications. So legacy software works without any change, thinking it is communicating over physical serial ports.

Overall, HW Virtual Serial Port is useful in cases where you need to connect serial-only applications in modern computing environments lacking real serial ports.

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